My Experience with Reiki

Reiki is a gentle, yet incredibly powerful, form of energy healing. We explain it in detail on our page here, so I won’t go into all that again. Instead, I’d like to share my own first experience with Reiki. Energy healing modalities in general are hard to quantify, and easy to be sceptical about, so hearing about a first-hand experience can be helpful in discerning if something is for you – something you’d like to explore a little further.

Reiki works on the physical, emotional and spiritual self. Because the three are intertwined. And when one is out of alignment, it can create a ripple effect of disharmony within the body. Energy ‘blockages’ can result.

When you are in great energetic health, your ‘ki’ (or ‘chi’) – your life force – flows beautifully and freely through your chakra centres and meridians, and you feel this as a sense of harmony. But it’s inevitable that there will be times in our lives when this isn’t the case. Emotional blockages can manifest in physical ways and behaviours, physical ailments can cause dis-ease to our emotional and spiritual selves – such is the connected nature of these aspects. What looks like one thing can actually have its roots somewhere else.

I’ll tell you my story.

When I was seventeen, I had a problem where I developed really severe ulcers and blisters in my mouth and throat. They were incredibly painful and would last for several weeks at a time. As a young aspiring singer and actor, this was hugely detrimental to what I was trying to do with my life – really hitting me where it hurts. I could barely eat or speak, let alone sing, and nothing I tried seemed to help. I was in a real state of despair.

My lovely mum, who was already on her spiritual journey at the time, took me to see a lady – for her privacy, let’s call her Yvette. Yvette was a healer, a mystic, a wise-woman in her crone years. She helped me so much that I continued to see her for regular sessions until I was thirty years old and moved away from Australia to start my new life in London.

Our sessions would start with a chat, about what was going on in my life, or things that had happened in my past. Then she would do a Reiki healing on me. What I came to understand, and it’s something I’ve found to be a common issue in women particularly, is that I was afraid of speaking my truth. My learned behaviour was to be the ‘good girl’, to not cause conflict, to not speak out of turn. I had learned not to express my feelings and authenticity. So great was this blockage of energy in my throat chakra, that it manifested physically as these awful, debilitating ulcers – that returned and returned – until I could no longer ignore it.

Reiki was not an overnight fix – journeys of spiritual healing rarely are. But it shone a light on a deeply ingrained pattern of behaviour that I had to begin the process of unlearning. Reiki was my support on this journey. As things would come up that needed to be released, my healing sessions with Yvette would clear them away. I’d always leave her therapy room feeling lighter, more peaceful, and proud of the progress I was making. My ulcers gradually became less severe, and then disappeared completely. I’ve never had one since. Because I found my voice, and I learned to stand up for myself.

It’s empowering to discover that you can participate in your own healing. During my years with Yvette I uncovered much about myself, and found Reiki to be a particular comfort in periods of depression and anxiety in my 20’s. Ultimately, it has changed my life in such a positive and profound way that I felt drawn to learn it for myself, and I find great joy now in sharing it with those who seek out alternative ways to heal and grow.

Reiki is not a miracle cure for all disease. It helps to restore your body, mind and spirit to harmony and alignment. It promotes peace and balance. And it can open your eyes to the ways in which your life and your body are connected. To how much influence you have over your own well-being. Life is full of ups and downs – Reiki won’t change that. But in its wisdom we learn how to respond to the challenges of life in a way that keeps us on our highest path.

You don’t have to have Reiki as frequently or for as long as I did to feel its impact. Its benefit can be felt after just one session. Nor does it have to mean getting into the nitty gritty of all your unresolved issues. It can just be a simple act of self-care to come and have a session of energy healing and leave feeling lighter. But it can also be a great tool along the road to spiritual discovery. A deeper understanding of yourself is always a beautiful thing.

If you’d like to book a session with us, or are interested in learning Reiki yourself, do drop us a line. We’d love to hear from you.

Blessings,

Julia xx